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paula vilaplana

2015

_ Address: 03011, Alicante_ Telephone: (+34)687 457 814

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PROFILE / BIO:“Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically” DH Lawrence

Paula Vilaplana (Alicante, 1985) has studied in the universities of Alicante, ETSAM Madrid and ENSAPB Paris-Belleville. After

studying for two years in the Faculty of Literature at the University of Alicante, she is interested in the narrative capacity of Architecture and its potential to generate probable fiction frames. She has worked in several Architecture agencies, being

awarded in Architecture Competitions and Design Contests. Her professional alter-ego is Fru * Fru (Rosana Galián + Paula Vilaplana), from where they design , write and film architectural experiences.

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Cuchiville is the name for the reuse of an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico as a space for artistic creation by proposing an artifact for each artist reinterpreting John Hejduk’s drawings in his diary,Victims. The project starts from a biological phenomenon: the transatlantic migration of Monarch Butterflies. These butterflies often stop their flight to rest on the highest points of offshore oil platforms, occupying and naturalizing them for short periods of time. Thus, the aim is not just to produce art works but to create a collaboration between energy, environment and artists. As well, human energy consciousness and social sustainability interact with ecological sustainability as a whole by using two legends present in the area, a mythological one (the existence of a monster from Chile half pig half snake related to oil) and a paranormal legend (UFO sightings in the Gulf of Mexico sometimes confused with the combustion of oil in the water based platforms).Cuchiville presentation consists of two formats: standard architecture panels and a pop up book, where each mechanism is represented in a pop up format.

Authors: Paula Vilaplana, Rosana Galián, Gonzalo HerreroAcademic, 2009Location : Gulf of Mexico CUCHIVILLE

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TRAM STOP AVIARY “How to make the portrait of a bird “is the result of a competition to design a tramway station in Alicante . The origin of the project is Jack Prevert’s poem “how to make the portrait of a bird”. Reading the poem allows us to conceive the station as a huge open air aviary where nature and machines hybridize creating moving geometries.

Authors:Grupo Aranea + Paula Vilaplana, Amelia Vilaplana, Carolina Narciso Competition, 2009 Location : Alicante

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In 2010 I moved to Paris to study for one year at Belleville’s University. I spent part of the year studying the work of Louise Bourgeois and researching her links with architecture. “Construction d’une femme-maison” is a project that first compares some works of Louise Bourgeois with others created by the architect John Hejduk in order to define how geometry constitutes a language comprehensible from different artistic domains or disciplines. Combining theorical research and practice, the work ended with the designing and constructing of one of Louise Bourgeois’s most interesting drawings, the femme-maison. It was a 2m tall wood structure.

FEMME-MAISONAuthors: Paula Vilaplana Wood sculpture, 2010Location : Paris

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DOUBLE GAMESP. meets R. one Wednesday in Matadero Madrid,.They are going to listen a lecture with Beatriz Ramo, Guzmán de Yarza and Agustín Fernández Mallo, two architects and a poet. They talk about roller coasters, airports, cities and non-generic places. Agustín reads an excerpt from Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities.It suddenly comes to R. & P. the idea of working together as Fru*Fru. Their first project would be called “double games: a dramatization of destruction” a performative object. Fru*Fru’s performative objects combine theoretical research, practical developments, performance, methodology and experimentation. In “Double games”, R. becomes Bernd Becher and P. becomes Rachel Whiteread. BerndFru&RachelFru ally with Agustín Fernández Mallo for a terrorist action in an old abandoned Fronton Court in Madrid called Beti Jai. The Beti Jai is described in the project as a dead body. The project turns into a play which is performed every week at class in Madrid. Though, it is not just a play: it has additional material such as radiographs, a corpse and an autopsy document.

Authors: Paula Vilaplana, Rosana Galián, Gonzalo Herrero Academic, 2011Location : Madrid

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Authors: Paula Vilaplana, Amelia Vilaplana, Blanca-Lora TamayoCompetition (1st PRIZE)2011, Madrid

you may not know it...but you're in

“You may not know it yet… but you’re in” proposes a rehabilitation of the lobby of the Ateneo building in Madrid. The project starts from the hidden history of the building related to freemasonry so as to recreate a possible fiction: that the secret society of shandy people, described by the writer Enrique Vila-Matas in his “Brief History of portable literature” has taken the Ateneo. Thus, from the magic and mystery, by light codes and specific interventions, the space comes alive and enhances his legend from contemporary tools and skills. A lighting device in the entrance attracts future visitors and informs of the program scheduled for the day. In the interior, a topographic ceiling is set up, formed by thousands of recycled lamps which turn on and off creating a magical ambience.

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the starrypotteryAuthors: Paula Vilaplana, Rosana Galián (Fru*Fru)Competition (1st PRIZE)2012, Murcia

The project “The Starry Pottery” considers the design of the VIP area of the SOS 4.8 Music Festival from the popular memory of the site, where a fair is held every September. Fru*Fru proposes a sophisticated recycling of old fairground rides, picking up little pieces of them in order to create a new system which will become a new Star System.

Both artists from the inside and public from the outside of the VIP area activate several light devices thanks to their movements, chants and applause creating a dialogue between two worlds that coexist in a music festival: the one of the artists, the stars of the festival for which a special galaxy called VIP area is going to be created, and the audience world, which can have a B side experience of the VIP area from contemplating the VIP galaxy with the starglasses they got with the festival ticket entrance.

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the foodlightparade Authors: Paula Vilaplana, Amelia Vilaplana, Rebeca CebriánCompetition 2012, New York

The Foodlight Parade offers a strategy to revitalize abandoned industrial infrastructures in the Hudson River waterfront. The new building comes naturally from the river, floating with a weightlessness feeling, which melts with the sky, adapting perfectly the building to atmospheric changes.

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GAUN'S JUNGLEAuthors: Paula Vilaplana, Rosana Galián (Fru*Fru)Temporary stand (BUILT)2013, Nuremberg

“Gaun’s jungle” is a temporary exhibition stand for the brand “Gaun” in the pet fair Interzoo in Nuremberg, Germany. Gaun is a firm specialized in pet facilities. This project started as a big challenge: we could only use Gaun’s materials and tools to build the whole space.The project consists of several metallic panels to help separate and distribute the space as it creates different atmospheres. It has been built by using cad cam machines to cut and drill steel plates.

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DEAR MRVITO ACCONCI

Authors: Paula Vilaplana, Rosana Galián (Fru*Fru)Vídeo Exhibited at “Miss Salon”, emerging formats from women in art & architecture 2012-2015 New York (USA)

This is a video addressed to Vito Acconci after the reading of a job offer on his webpage. Though he is never going to never receive it… Fru*Fru understand the proposal as a powerful opportunity to reorganize their work in a piece where work routines combine with domestic situations. The projects invade domestic interiors involving actions like sleeping, dressing up, applying make-up or cooking, so as to generate a continuity between professional and personal actions. Life becomes work. Work is life.

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life hysteriasAuthors: Paula Vilaplana, Rosana Galián (Fru*Fru)Temporary Installation (BUILT)2013, El Corte Inglés (Alicante, Spain)

“Life Hysterias” is a temporary installation that reflects on ways of domestic living by reviewing the identity of the architect and architecture in a contemporary context in which it is necessary to continually redefine its role. Fru*Fru integrates architectural production formats in terms of new teaching of architecture (teaching objects) , new architecture management (informative objects ) and new formalization of architecture (domesticated objects).The installation is star shaped: but this star appears deformed. Each point of the star corresponds to a remake of an existing architectural object at different scales and uses processes taken from projects of their previous academic and professional portfolio.In this project, Fru*Fru appear as hosts, curators and producers of the installation.

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Authors: Paula Vilaplana, Rosana Galián (Fru*Fru)Temporary Installation (BUILT)2013, El Corte Inglés (Alicante, Spain)

ELROD HOUSEREMAKEA DINNER WITH POLTERGEIST

Authors: Paula Vilaplana, Rosana Galián (Fru*Fru)House design project. 2013, Alicante> This project has been selected as part of the ARQUIA/PROXIMA catalogue 2014

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This project is part of the installation “Life Hysterias”, a compilation of 5 projects (5 episodes) designed by Fru*Fru which explores the links between domesticity and media. This episode consists of designing a version of John Lautner’s Elrod House, which will become a house for Fru*Fru, a team of two architects. This episode contains two large format drawings hung in the structure: they represent two rooms in Fru*Fru’s house, one corresponding to the bedrooms and the other one to an office/living room.Fru*Fru’s house is a house for “delightist” architects (the term “delightist architecture” was first described by David Archilla in his Delightist Manifest). In this house, there is no distinction between work areas and leisure spaces. Fru*Fru’s work is Fru*Fru’s life as it is perceivable in every corner of the house: in

the beds where they lay and work or in the living room where they can have work meetings or invite friends for dinner. Moreover, screens are everywhere in the house: virtual guests keep always company. The designing of the house is inspired by John Lautner’s houses and his scenographical domestic spaces: the swimming pool that borders the bedrooms or the presence of magnificent stairways convert each transition from one room to another into a real acting stage.

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DREAMLAND REMAKE AFFECTIVE CORPORATISM IN THE SHOPPING MALL

Authors: Paula Vilaplana, Rosana Galián (Fru*Fru)Urban dystopia project 2013, Alicante

As part of “Life Hysterias : Fru*Fru in five episodes”, this episode corresponds to the urban scale of the project. Fru*Fru proposes an urban dystopia, FruFruLand, a totally artificial city, located within a shopping mall. In this city, artificial items redefine themselves as natural ones, pursuing the idea that it is necessary to override what is natural in a totally artificialized context. The shape of the city is a remake of Coney Island’s Dreamland Park, but FruFruland has turned into a plasticized ambiance, made of holograms, pixels, transgenic nature and modified air conditions.

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turn on the christmas lightsAuthors: Paula Vilaplana, Rosana Galián (Fru*Fru)Christmas’s Greeting Vídeo 2014 Alicante (SPAIN)

Christmas greeting from Fru * Fru for 2014, inspired by the suburban decor of American homes at Christmas, which become showcases of light and political positions. These ephemeral lighting constructions have more content than just Christmas illusionism: some of them stand as political and religious decors where each neighbor externalizes a certain position. As Fru*Fru, we wanted to compile a catalog of our favorite lightened houses so as to produce our personal Christmas landscape.

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dance craze!Authors: Paula Vilaplana, Rosana Galián (Fru*Fru)Temporary Installation & Performance2014, Arte y Voces SOS4.8 (Murcia, Spain)

“Dance Craze!Dare to dance it” is a project commissioned from Iván López Munuera to Fru Fru for the exhibition “Fan Riots” into the festival SOS 4.8 in Murcia. The project starts from thinking about the appropriation of some dances, which, emerged in specific socio-political contexts, are stripped or loaded new content by successive appropriations. This appropriation is always linked to a radical dislocation of scenarios or contexts. Different characters, sometimes anonymous and other not so much, activate their meanings from their small individual stories. Our proposal consists on building three prostheses for dancing, each associated with a particular dance step. All the prosthesis working together generate a choreography. Each of these prosthesis help to emphasize the movements of a dance, but they are also charged with a series of special objects and colors. Materiality allows to recognize the description of the life stories of specific characters and their relationship with different significations of these dances. The design emphasizes the origins and the most relevant successive appropriations. Prosthesis thus become a genealogy of twerk, vogue and tecktonik.

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dance craze!DANCE & ARCHITECTUREAuthors: Paula Vilaplana, Rosana Galián (Fru*Fru)PROYECTOS 0 Program, Academic Research2014, School of ArchitectureUniversity of Alicante (Spain)

PROYECTOS0 is an education program promoted by the Architectural Projects Department of the University of Alicante. “Dare to dance it” is the educational initiation program to the architectural project developed and implemented at Proyectos0 during the course of 2014 by Fru*Fru. The program focuses on studying the links between dance(s) and architecture and the phenomena resulting from this interaction, working from the body scale, to the organization, representation and preparation of a performance, trying to generate the learning from the celebration and enjoyment of the discipline.

GENERAL AIMS:- To learn how to start a project by researching, classifying and making a critical selection of data- To detect opportunity spaces and conflict areas so as to generate projects with transformative potential- To recognize architecture protocols appearing in ordinary realities and everyday routines - To develop a diversified cultural background by adding artistic, scientific, sociological and popular interests to the architecture development- To build up communication abilities adapted to an architecture project (language, formats …)

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edomAuthors: Enrique Nieto, Pedro Alberto Cruz,Paula Vilaplana, Rosana Galián (Fru*Fru)Visual Arts Museum2014, Blanca - Murcia (BUILT)

EDOM is the first Spanish museum specializing in video art. The project is promoted by Blanca’s City Hall and directed by Enrique Nieto and Pedro Alberto Cruz. The intervention consists of the rehabilitation of two old houses in the village center and the integration of technology systems according to the new use. The name EDOM (domestic space) declares the intention to review the ways to experience video art in contemporary institutions and find new domesticated situations that fit this context. The consumption of culture becomes a daily activity at home like lying in bed, getting into the bathtub, opening the closet or sitingt on the couch.Fru*Fru collaborate in the overall designing and putting in work methacrylate items and other graphical elements such as signage, wall tattoos and network of electric wires.

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Authors: Paula Vilaplana, Anabel Ruiz, Rosana Galián, Amelia VialaplanaA presentation of the club took place at COAMU, Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Murcia2012, Murcia- Alicante

JUGO DE LEVANTE

Jugo de Levante starts as a research which aim is to redefine the role of the architect in crisis contexts. This project, straddling research and happening, brings together thirteen architecture teams around a banquet table where they prepare and eat a menu cooked with their particularly studio tools. The banquet table is both a map of relationships between teams and a workplace. It will also support the exhibition.

We like to play with the power of objects to transform contexts. This can be experienced with the banquet table.

Jugo de Levante first exhibition will be called “ Levante pasa factura” and will show bills from the agencies taken part in the banquet.

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Authors: Paula Vilaplana, Rosana Galián (Fru*Fru)Design & Concept of “ Taller de Invierno 2013” at the Alicante School of ArchitectureParticipants: Agustín Fernández Mallo y Eloy Fernández Porta2013, University of Alicante (Spain)

afterpop looksfor an architect In March 2013, Fru*Fru had the fantastic chance to organize a workshop at the AeA Alicante, with two very special guests: writers Agustín Fernández Mallo and Eloy Fernández Porta. They usually work separately but they sometimes build together performative speeches called “Afterpop Fernández&Fernández”.

Fru*Fru had a triple labor in this workshop:- engaging two culture personalities to participate in the workshop- writing texts and statements for a workshop proposal- filming and editing all the work produced during the workshop.

Many professors from the Project Area took part in the workshop such as Enrique Nieto, Miguel Mesa del Castillo, Uriel Fogué & Nerea Calvillo among others.

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boudoir conversationsAuthors: Gonzalo Herrero, Paula Vilaplana, Rosana Galián (Fru*Fru)Virtual Dialogues & ExhibitionMy House is Your Museum2014, Alicante (Spain) - London (UK)

Boudoir Conversations is a collection of virtual dialogues simultaneously developed in two domestic spaces in Spain and the UK, respectively curated by Fru*Fru and Gonzalo Herrero Delicado.

These two spaces are defined by two common intimate bedroom elements: the boudoir and the bed that host public media displays for each volume of the series. Gonzalo opens up his bedroom in central London to run the in-bed conversations while Fru*Fru through their media boudoir in Alicante complete the project.

These dialogues are focused on identity transformations due to massive pop phenomena such as the mediatisation, sexualisation, technologisation and corporatisation of households.

The series consisted on five broadcasted interviews together with a selection of different figures from contemporary architecture and art domains including Eva Franch, Nerea Calvillo, Beatrice Galilee, MISS [Vere van Gool and Mary Wang] and Carlos Jiménez.

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ctaaopeningAuthors: Paula Vilaplana, Rosana Galián (Fru*Fru)Lecture & Performance2014, Colegio Territorial de Arquitectos de Alicante (Spain)

The CTAA opens its new headquarters by rehabilitating an old building at Gabriel Miró Square. For the event the association chooses an experienced architect, Martin Lejárraga, and three teams composed by emerging architects (Anabel Ruiz, OLA study and Fru*Fru) so as to carry out an opening lecture.

Fru*Fru understands this act as a revision and reinvention of the role of architect’s associations, a positive ceremony that celebrates the appearance of new roles within the discipline. So, again we introduce some of our projects in an enjoying and experimental way.

We propose to the audience to change their point of view and adopt a different one by looking at our projects using gifted glasses located on their seats. We use optical effects in the shown images, so that you can only understand the drawings while you are wearing the fru-glasses.

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pooltalksAuthors: Paula Vilaplana, Rosana Galián (Fru*Fru)Short Lectures for Transtropicalia Music Festival2014, El Altet (Alicante, Spain)

PoolTalks is a cultural event managed by Fru*Fru for Transtropicalia music festival in Alicante. It consists of a block of 5 micro lectures around a swimming pool. This event is part of an investigation started with Boudoir Conversations: the main objective is to take high culture out of context by breaking the traditional exhibition formats. Different domestic settings, in this case a pool in a family house, are used as laboratories of production and cultural reflection, spotting their political potential.

Guest speakers are important people nationwide but who exert their profession from a local level. As Fru*Fru we are interested in finding how territoriality conditions the exercise of different disciplines. In the first edition we had the pleasure to attend “Huerta Bizarra”,the film director

Chema García Ibarra, the feminist group “Mujeres con Pajarita”, the writer Miguel Ángel Hernández and the musician and producer Katafú.

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twerking atmataderoAuthors: Paula Vilaplana, Rosana Galián (Fru*Fru)Performance at Matadero’s Terrace2014, Matadero (Madrid, Spain)

“Twerking at Matadero” is a public action at Matadero’s Terrace, a cultural spot in Madrid.

We introduce ourselves in a future scenario: Madrid as an Olympic city in 2028, the year in which twerking becomes a new Olympic sport.

We take this fictional framework for a review of Twerk’s controversial and protagonists, which have increased recently building up what we could call a recent history of Twerk .

The Performance stages the first Twerk Olympic Games, hosted in Madrid in 2028. We try to give an overview of the twerk sports scene, and we focus on regulations and modalities describing ultimately the Olympic uniforms.

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mediaboudoir

Fru*Fru (Rosana Galián + Paula Vilaplana)2013Exhibition (“Life Hysterias) | Scenery for “Boudoir Conversations”

selected forARQUIA/PROXIMAcatalogue 2015

It is a scenographic furniture pondering gender issues in identity discourses. It is a transportable object and it is furthermore equipped with technologies such as a tablet or a smartphone so that it can be used as a mobile recording studio. The whole scene is made of two boudoirs that can be placed in different positions allowing a personal or a public use.

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ledtable

Fru*Fru (Rosana Galián + Paula Vilaplana)2013Exhibition (“Life Hysterias)

A led table with 12 switches and 111 leds was built for the installation, “Life Hysterias”, as an interactive conceptual map of the installation. This way, the visitors could switch on each of the leds so as to locate an importante concept or idea developped in the installation.

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twerkingprosthesis

Fru*Fru (Rosana Galián + Paula Vilaplana)2014Performance&Exhibition (“Fan Riots” curated by Iván López Munuera)

This project consists of a prosthetic booty which reproduces the movements of twerking. It is built with methacrylate and the drawings in it refer to the history of this dance, from its beginning in the Bounce culture to Miley Cyrus’s appropriation and finally the urban version made by Caramel Kitten. It helps reproducing the dance so that anyone can dance it!

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voguingprosthesis

Fru*Fru (Rosana Galián + Paula Vilaplana)2014Performance&Exhibition (“Fan Riots” curated by Iván López Munuera)

This prototype consists of sliding frames and a large cape. . It is built with methacrylate and the drawings in it refer to the history of this dance, from its birth in the Harlem Ballrooms during the 80’s to Madonna’s single “Vogue” and finally the karaoke version by Robert Jeffrey, also known as the Vogue Kid. . It helps reproducing the dance so that anyone can dance it!

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tecktonikprosthesis

Fru*Fru (Rosana Galián + Paula Vilaplana)2014

Performance&Exhibition (“Fan Riots” curated by Iván López Munuera)

This prototype consists of a spherical structure around the head and several mechanism placed around the chest and the shoulders. It is built with methacrylate and the drawings in it refer to the history of this dance, from its birth in the Movida Valenciana during the 80’s to Chimo Bayo’s appropriation and finally the domestic version by Hasan Baba, who dances tecktonik in front of his grandchild in his Turkish living room.

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electricinsulator

Fru*Fru (Rosana Galián + Paula Vilaplana)Electrical Installation for EDOM (Videoart Center in Blanca)

These are electrical insulators designed for Edom, the first center of visual arts in Spain. Its shape comes from the drawings of the building’s floor.

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multimediabirdcage

Fru*Fru (Rosana Galián + Paula Vilaplana)2014Projector’s containers for EDOM (Videoart Center in Blanca)

These birdcages do not contain any bird, but video projectors! They have been designed for Edom, the first center of visual arts in Spain. They help hiding the projectors but they also have a lighting system integrated so that they can be used as lamps when they are not hosting any projector. Their design is based on the drawings existing in the building’s floor.

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Exclusive collar for “Swanisimo Hyperlatino”, a new Hip Hop Singer who aims to design his own stage character. This collar was designed for shooting his first video.swanisimo

hyperlatinoFru*Fru (Rosana Galián + Paula Vilaplana)2015

Dinosaur Collar for a Hip Hop Artist